About 30 responders were on-scene, Dahl said, bringing the fire under control within 30 minutes.

Dahl said the building sustained smoke damage throughout and water damage in the basement where the fire originated.

No foul play is suspected. The fire's cause is under investigation by members of the Oldham County Arson Task Force and the Kentucky State Police. There were no injuries.

"Normally 100-year-old structures in rural areas do not survive a fire," Dahl said. "This incident inadvertently underscored the great life and property-saving potential of automatic sprinklers in a resident structure, even though it wasn't equipped with them."